Decreasing the share of travel by car. Strategies for implementing ‘push’ or ‘pull’ measures in a traditionally car-centric transport and land use planning

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Table 1. Transport policy goals and proportion of travel by car.

City	RVU	Development of travel	Goal for reduced car traffic	Leading/Average
Eskilstuna	Eskilstuna Municipality (2016)	High proportion of travel by car (64%). Increasing proportion of car journeys 2010–2015 (Eskilstuna Municipality, 2016).	The goal is to reduce car traffic to 39% by 2020 (Eskilstuna Municipality, 2016)	‘Average’
Lund	Lund Municipality (2018a)	Low proportion of trips by car, 34%, (Lund Municipality, 2018a). Within central Lund 25% (Lund Municipality, 2014).	All travel increase in Lund municipality must take place by foot, bicycle or public transport (Lund Municipality, 2018b). Of all travel within Lund Municipality, 70 % is intended to be by public transport, walking or cycling by 2020, and 75 % by 2030 (Lund Municipality, 2014).	‘Leading’

Table 2. Selected transport characteristics of cities (Public Transport: PT).

City	Population of municipality (year of data)	Mode share % all trips by:				Car Ownership Per 1000 people (2019)
		Car	PT	Bike	Walk.
Eskilstuna	105,000 (2020)	64	11	13	11	461
Lund	120,000 (2020)	34	23	27	14	522

Note: For data sources see Appendix A.

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